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Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology Workshop
CERES, Melbourne, AU
© Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Photos
For millennia our mystical and cultural traditions understood the Earth as alive and sacred. Everyday life was once rooted in an embodied spiritual ecology: a conscious recognition of the Earth’s spirit and animate presence, and values of interconnectedness, kinship, reciprocity, compassion, and reverence. Amid the destruction and oppressive systems that shape modern life, many of us have forgotten how to live this way. What will it take to find our way into communion with the living world once again?
In deep spring 2026, join Sufi teacher and Emergence founder and executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee for a weekend workshop at CERES community environment park on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, where he will offer a framework for awakening the memory of our sacred kinship with the living world. Drawing from the main themes in his forthcoming book Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology (Shambhala Publications, June 2026), this two-day event will feature talks, as well as instruction in a series of simple practices that engage the breath, heart, walking, listening and time, opening a space for participants to tend the threads of grief and love that connect us with the Earth. Each practice is a doorway, inviting you from concept to communion, from observer to participant in the sacred web of life, offering an embodied spiritual ecology that moves beyond ideas into lived experience.
ABOUT EMMANUEL VAUGHAN-LEE
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is an author, Emmy- and Peabody Award–nominated filmmaker, and a Sufi teacher. He has directed more than twenty documentary films, including Taste of the Land, The Last Ice Age, Aloha Āina, The Nightingale’s Song, Earthrise, Sanctuaries of Silence, and Elemental, among others. His films have been screened at New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Hot Docs, exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum and London’s Barbican, and featured on PBS POV, National Geographic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Op-Docs. His first book, Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology, is forthcoming from Shambhala in summer 2026. He is the founder, podcast host, and executive editor of Emergence Magazine.
DETAILS
Dates: September 26–27, 2026 (Saturday–Sunday)
Timing: 10am–5pm each day
Tickets are offered on a sliding scale of $150–$250 (AUD) and include lunch, as well as a copy of Emmanuel’s book Remembering Earth.
A small number of bursary-supported places are available for those with an expressed need. Click here to learn more and register.